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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| is one of the social sciences, which consists of that body of knowledge dealing with people and their assets or resources. | ECONOMICS |
| are those that are consumed or are used directly by people, or are things and services which serve to satisfy human needs. | Consumer goods |
| Examples: clothes, shoes, soap, food, tape recorders, houses, medical and dental services, barber and beauty services. | Consumer goods |
| are those which produce goods and services for human consumption, such as electric motors, generators, tools, concrete mixers, busses, airplanes and ships. | Producer goods |
| are those products or services that are required to support human life and activities, that will be purchased in somewhat the same quantity even though the price varies considerably. | Necessities |
| are those products or services that are desired by humans and will be purchased if money is available after the required necessities have been obtained | Luxuries |
| is the quantity of a certain commodity that is bought at a certain price at a given place and time. | DEMAND |
| is the quantity of a certain commodity that is offered for sale at a certain price at a given place and time. | SUPPLY |
| occurs when a decrease in selling price will cause a greater than proportionate increase in the volume of sales. | ELASTIC DEMAND |
| occurs when a decrease in the selling price will cause a less than proportionate increase in sales. | INELASTIC DEMAND |
| occurs when the mathematical product of volume and price is constant. | UNITARY ELASTICITY OF DEMAND |
| occurs in a situation where a commodity or service is supplied by a number of vendors and there is nothing to prevent additional vendors entering in the market. | Perfect competition |
| is the opposite of perfect competition | Monopoly |
| exists when a unique product or service is available from a single vendor and that vendor can prevent the entry of all others into the market. | perfect monopoly |
| exists when there are so few suppliers of a product or service that action by one will almost inevitably result in similar action by the others. | Oligopoly |
| When the use of one of the factors of production is limited, either in increasing cost or by absolute quantity, a point will be reached beyond which an increase in the variable factors will result in a less than proportionate increase in output. | THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS |
| When free competition exists, the price of a product will be that value where supply is equal to the demand | THE LAW OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND |
| The supply of a commodity varies directly as the price of the commodity, though not proportionally | THE LAW OF SUPPLY |
| The demand for a commodity varies inversely as the price of the commodity, though not proportionally | THE LAW OF DEMAND |
| used to designate a rental amount charged by financial institutions for the use of money. | INTEREST |
| obtained by setting the sum of the values on a certain comparison or focal date of one set of obligations equal to the sum of the values on the same date of another set of obligations. | equation of value |
| consists of a series of equal payments made at equal intervals of time. | annuity |
| occurs one interest period before the first A (uniform payment) | P (present worth) |
| is one where he payments are made at the beginning of each period. | annuity due |
| is an annuity in which the payments continue indefinitely. | perpetuity |
| is one where the first payment is made several periods after the beginning of the annuity. | deferred annuity |
| If the cash flow does not begin until some later date, the annuity is known as a | DEFERRED ANNUITY. |
| of any property is the sum of the first cost and the present worth of all costs of replacement, operation and maintenance for an indefinite period. | CAPITALIZED COST |
| It refers to spreading payments over multiple periods. | AMORTIZATION |
| It is the distribution of payment into multiple cash flow installments, as determined by an ___________ schedule. | AMORTIZATION |
| It is a table detailing each periodic payment on an amortizing loan. | AMORTIZATION SCHEDULE |